Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an…

Real talk, is the smith a hero at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: hero, end

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 450 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an old woman, loses his hand, and runs home» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hero	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hero	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smith	det
6	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hero	nsubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hero	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real talk	a hero			at the end		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he's brave, pretty cool now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brave	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cool	punct
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 cool	advmod
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	conj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 cool	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					brave property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here				now	pretty property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he's not a hero, he lost his hand and his comrade got eaten by Likho

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hero	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hero	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hero	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hero	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hero	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eaten	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 comrade	nmod:poss
15	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eaten	nsubj
16	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eaten	aux:pass
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lost	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 Likho	case
19	Likho	Likho	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	he	a hero	tree rules
2	lose	past	a hero	hero's hand	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality
3	eat	past · passive	Likho	hero's comrade	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he lost a leg, kinda messed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leg	det
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 messed	punct
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	9 messed	advmod
9	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	a leg					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality
2	mess	participle	he not said here					kinda property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he lost a hand, pretty messed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 messed	punct
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	9 messed	advmod
9	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lost	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 messed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	a hand					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality
2	mess up	participle	he not said here					pretty property	tree rules

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